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| Notable Poems |
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| Lifespan |
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| Poet |
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| Davideis, The Mistress |
1618-1667 |
Abraham Cowley |
| Epithalamion, The Faerie Queene |
1552-1599 |
Edmund Spenser |
| Astrophel and Stella, The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia |
1554-1586 |
Sir Philip Sidney |
| A Lover's Complaint, The Rape of Lucrece |
1564-1618 |
William Shakespeare |
| The Garden, To His Coy Mistress |
1621-1678 |
Andrew Marvell |
| To The Virgins To Make Much Of Time |
1591-1674 |
Robert Herrick |
| Tam O'Shanter, To A Mouse |
1759-1796 |
Robert Burns |
| Christabel, Kubla Khan, Rime of the Ancient Mariner |
1772-1834 |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| Everything Primrose, The Skylark, I Am |
1793-1864 |
John Clare |
| Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion, The Sick Rose, The Tyger |
1757-1827 |
William Blake |
| Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, The Corsair, Beppo, Don Juan |
1788-1824 |
Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron) |
| The Excursion, The Prelude, Tintern Abbey |
1770-1850 |
William Wordsworth |
| Adonais, Prometheus Unbound, To A Skylark |
1792-1822 |
Percy Bysshe Shelley |
| To Autumn, Ode on Melancholy, Ode to Psyche, Lamia |
1795-1821 |
John Keats |
| Renascene, The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver, First Fig |
1892-1950 |
Edna St. Vincent Millay |
| Paracelsus, Pippa Passes, My Last Duchess |
1812-1889 |
Robert Browning |
| Maud Mueller, Snowbound |
1807-1892 |
John Greenleaf Whittier |
| Claribel, Mariana, The Lady of Shalott, Idylls of the King |
1809-1892 |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
| Spring and All, This Is Just To Say, The Red Wheelbarrow |
1883-1963 |
Dr. William Carlos Williams |
| China Cantos, Leopoldine Cantos, Pisan Cantos, Ballad of the Goodly Fere |
1885-1972 |
Ezra Pound |
| The Wanderings of Oison, September 1913, Leda and the Swan |
1865-1913 |
William Butler Yeats |
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